Hook and eye manipulator.



P. T. GHALPANT. HOOK AND EYE MANIPULATOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1913.

1,092,338. Patented Apr. 7, 1914 INVEN TOR V Bier fj fiayazzi.

coLuMmA PLANOGRAPH 470., WASHINGTON. D. c,

PETER T. GHALFANT, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK AND EYE MANIPULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 22, 1913.

Patented Apr. 7, 1914:. Seria1No.780,442.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, PETER T. GHALFANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook and Eye Manipulators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hook and eye manipulators, the object of the invention being to provide a simple inexpensive device which will firmly hold a hook or eye while the latter are being sewed to the goods, permitting the proper placing of the hook and eye without difficulty.

I-Ieretofore it has been customary to hold the hook and the eye by means of the thumb and forefinger, while they are being sewed in place. As these parts, particularly the eye, are extremely small, it is very ditficult to properly manipulate the same so as to secure them in the right place. Furthermore, considerable time is lost in properly positioning the eye relative to the hook, and frequently the parts are misplaced because of the difficulty in marking the goods and holding the hook and eye.

With my improvements, after the hooks are sewed in place, the eyes can be located on the hooks, and while held by means of my improved manipulator, can be sewed to the goods and thereby insure their proper positioning.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view in elevation illustrating my improved manipulator supporting a hook while the latter is held in position on the goods ready for use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved manipulator. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig, 4 is a view in section on an enlarged scale on the line 4.-& of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a similar View in section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

My improved device comprises a single piece of spring wire coiled between its ends as shown at 1 and forming two spring arms 2, 2, the coil 1 serving to move the free ends of said arms away from each other. The arms 2 at their free ends are sharp as shown at 3 and are bent forming fingers 8 of general compound curvature as seen most clearly in Fig. 5, the fingers being in a plane at right angles to the plane of the arms, and such compound curvature giving to the free ends of said fingers a hook shape as shown at 4. In other words, the sharp free ends of the hooks at the free ends of the fingers extend outwardly in opposite directions, so that when they are placed within the loop portions 5 of a hook 6 or eye 7, they will press outwardly and engage under the hooks and eyes to securely hold the latter.

9 represents a finger hold which is in the form of a sheet metal plate positioned between the convolutions of coil 1 and secured by punching the metal as shown at 10. This plate 9 extends at both sides of the device and forms a convenient grip to hold the device and facilitate its manipulation.

In Fig. 1, I illustrate my improvements supporting a hook, and in Fig. 3 I show the same supporting an eye. To pick up an eye or hook, the arms 2, 2, are pressed together between the thumb and forefinger until the hooked ends 3 can be projected through the loops 5 of the hook or eye. When pressure on the arms 2, 2, is released, the elasticity of the device will tend to spread the arms apart, and firmly hold the hook or eye.

The device can be readily manipulated in the hand to position the hook or eye on the goods and hold the same while being sewed, when the device can be readily removed to pick up another hook or eye.

It is a common practice to first sew the hooks to the goods and then the eyes. With my device the eye can be held and positioned on the hook, and while in such position, the goods can be bent backwardly and the eye attached so that there can be no possibility of mistake in placing the eye on the goods. Furthermore, the device permits the hooks and eyes to be readily picked up and firmly held in any position for attachment to the goods, and I do not limit myself to any particular use nor to any particular form of hook and eye, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A hook and eye manipulator comprising two spring arms having outwardly flared In testimony whereof I have signed my hooks at their free ends adapted to engage name to this specification in the presence of through openings in a hook or eye and suptWo subscribing Witnesses.

port such hook or eye by the elasticity of PETER T.CHALFANT. the spring arms, While the hook or eye is \Vitnesses: being attached to a piece of material, sub- M. E. Drrros, st-antially as described. CHAs. E. Poms.

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